Comments on: Bill Moyers on Health Care http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/ John Hamilton Farr's Living Planet Mystery Tales from Taos, New Mexico Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:57:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JHF http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2690 JHF Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:09:56 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2690 You're very welcome, David! BTW, it's getting kinda <em>cool</em> here... and I'm thinking of building a [gasp] fire. You’re very welcome, David!

BTW, it’s getting kinda cool here… and I’m thinking of building a [gasp] fire.

]]> By: david in maine http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2687 david in maine Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:34:43 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2687 Hey John! Thanks for sharing Bill Moyers on Health Care - He is an interesting person. Hey John!
Thanks for sharing Bill Moyers on Health Care – He is an interesting person.

]]> By: JHF http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2664 JHF Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:30:27 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2664 Glad to hear that. :-) And please forgive my clumsiness. I should have known as much, even though you're apparently responding to an earlier edition of my previous comment (before I caught myself projecting and edited the damn thing). My own experience of being raised by farm animals has me looking for manure in all the wrong places. As for Medicare, 48 more weeks to go, and I'm counting every one. Already looking forward to my first physical exam in over 12 years. Will they tell me I have six months to live? Do doctors still use tongue depressors? Will I have to "cough"? So much to learn, so little time... Glad to hear that. :-) And please forgive my clumsiness. I should have known as much, even though you’re apparently responding to an earlier edition of my previous comment (before I caught myself projecting and edited the damn thing). My own experience of being raised by farm animals has me looking for manure in all the wrong places.

As for Medicare, 48 more weeks to go, and I’m counting every one. Already looking forward to my first physical exam in over 12 years. Will they tell me I have six months to live? Do doctors still use tongue depressors? Will I have to “cough”?

So much to learn, so little time…

]]> By: Joseph http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2663 Joseph Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:11:46 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2663 If I didn't have Medicare, I probably would have died years ago. But I am not a whiner. I don't care. Whether I deserve Medicare was determined by Lyndon Johnson and his "Guns and Butter" tap dance to deflect criticism of the body bags returning. In any event, I worked hard for it all my life, as you have. I have found no true leader admits inner sensitivity. IF she does, they eat her alive. If I didn’t have Medicare, I probably would have died years ago. But I am not a whiner. I don’t care. Whether I deserve Medicare was determined by Lyndon Johnson and his “Guns and Butter” tap dance to deflect criticism of the body bags returning. In any event, I worked hard for it all my life, as you have.
I have found no true leader admits inner sensitivity. IF she does, they eat her alive.

]]> By: JHF http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2662 JHF Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:07:02 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2662 Well, if you didn't have Medicare, God help you if you ever <em>really</em> got sick. I'll leave it to others to argue, but I think you should listen to your son. <em>Really</em> listen. Well, if you didn’t have Medicare, God help you if you ever really got sick.

I’ll leave it to others to argue, but I think you should listen to your son. Really listen.

]]> By: Joseph http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2661 Joseph Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:08:30 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2661 It is a known fact that the health insurance industry has a profit margin of about 2%, the same as Super markets. Apple's profit margin is about 20%. Who are the pirates? Indeed, 60% of all health insurance companies in the country are non-profit. The administration found out the unpopularity of insurance companies and slickly switched from "Health Care Reform" to "Health Insurance Reform". Didn't you notice? My son is as naive as you are. I told him the other day. He then said "And it has hurt me.". Lyndon Johnson passed all of the "Great Society" goodies piecemeal and with bipartisanship - and he was not a popular man. The present Demos should look back on history. 76% of America doesn't have a clue what he wants. And his ever changing massive proposal is easily cut to shreds, as it should be. I believe that we should direct our energies towards tort reform, interstate accessibility, and the actual people now without health care. It is a known fact that the health insurance industry has a profit margin of about 2%, the same as Super markets. Apple’s profit margin is about 20%. Who are the pirates? Indeed, 60% of all health insurance companies in the country are non-profit.
The administration found out the unpopularity of insurance companies and slickly switched from “Health Care Reform” to “Health Insurance Reform”. Didn’t you notice? My son is as naive as you are. I told him the other day. He then said “And it has hurt me.”.
Lyndon Johnson passed all of the “Great Society” goodies piecemeal and with bipartisanship – and he was not a popular man. The present Demos should look back on history.
76% of America doesn’t have a clue what he wants. And his ever changing massive proposal is easily cut to shreds, as it should be.
I believe that we should direct our energies towards tort reform, interstate accessibility, and the actual people now without health care.

]]> By: JHF http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2660 JHF Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:09:36 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2660 Joseph, I honestly do appreciate your experience and insight. You also have the right computer. :-) However, or in any case, <em>this</em> lowly person would like to see an end to unnecessary suffering and exploitation by insurance company pirates! It also seems to me that Moyers is with the angels of our better nature here. Haven't seen anything yet to tell me Obama won't blow it, of course, and a lot more things than health care are liable to fail if he does... Joseph, I honestly do appreciate your experience and insight. You also have the right computer. :-)

However, or in any case, this lowly person would like to see an end to unnecessary suffering and exploitation by insurance company pirates! It also seems to me that Moyers is with the angels of our better nature here.

Haven’t seen anything yet to tell me Obama won’t blow it, of course, and a lot more things than health care are liable to fail if he does…

]]> By: Joseph http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2658 Joseph Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:38:10 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2658 John, what you have here is one professor lecturing another professor. Both of them are Harvard elitists who know what is good for more lowly persons. But what they really are is two clowns bumping into each other in the dark. Moyers did have one good observation though, Washington is no place for mincing indecisive do-gooders. John, what you have here is one professor lecturing another professor. Both of them are Harvard elitists who know what is good for more lowly persons. But what they really are is two clowns bumping into each other in the dark. Moyers did have one good observation though, Washington is no place for mincing indecisive do-gooders.

]]> By: JHF http://www.farrfeed.com/2009/09/05/bill-moyers-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2656 JHF Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:25:03 +0000 http://www.farrfeed.com/?p=4545#comment-2656 Well Joseph, if you're implying that Moyers is attacking the President, I don't see it that way. Seems more like he's <em>laying things out,</em> cutting through the noise: depending on what the speech reveals, Obama is either for the insurance companies or the people. The former would amount to one helluva broken promise as well as a terrible blow. A big moment in history as he steps up to the plate: if he bunts, it's all over for the Democrats. It really is an extraordinary moment. From what I've heard so far, though, he's about to throw it all away. Well Joseph, if you’re implying that Moyers is attacking the President, I don’t see it that way. Seems more like he’s laying things out, cutting through the noise: depending on what the speech reveals, Obama is either for the insurance companies or the people. The former would amount to one helluva broken promise as well as a terrible blow.

A big moment in history as he steps up to the plate: if he bunts, it’s all over for the Democrats. It really is an extraordinary moment. From what I’ve heard so far, though, he’s about to throw it all away.

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